Nadiia Bureiko is the co-director of the Ukraine Abroad Programme at the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”. Photo courtesy of Nadiia Bureiko.
This is constantly mentioned in the
main strategic national documents of Ukraine, including the most recent
Strategy of National Security, adopted in 2020, where relations with the US
have been dedicated a special status.
Nevertheless, the bilateral
dialogue hit a bump in 2019 when Ukraine was dragged into the centre of a US domestic political battle. Then
President Donald Trump faced impeachment charges following a phone conversation
with Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump urged the
Ukrainian leader to investigate corruption-related allegations against the Biden
5 NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support helped deliver more than $3.2 million dollars in medical supplies to Ukraine as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
The delivery is part of a joint effort requiring cooperation between NAVSUP WSS and several other federal departments to ensure mission success.
“We were looking at more than 200 commercial pallets with a variety of complicated problems standing between the supplies at Joint Consolidation Point Mechanicsburg, PA and our partners in Ukraine,” said Colleen Distel-Smith, logistics management supervisor, NAVSUP WSS. To get this accomplished efficiently and accurately, medical logistics specialists from the U.S. Army Reserves were called in.
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The bill authorizes US$250 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, including US$75 million for lethal assistance.
REUTERS
The U.S. Senate by an overwhelming majority of 84 to 13 on Friday approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021.
Earlier this week, the bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, as reported by the Voice of America s Ukrainian service.
Among the important provisions of the bill approved in the Senate, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, in particular, called provisions that once and for all clarify that everyone involved in the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas project will be subject to destructive sanctions developed by him together with Senator from the Democratic Party Jeanne Shaheen.
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